Author: Kathryn UnruhPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 208
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The Influence of the Noh Plays of Japan on the Dramatic Art of W.B. Yeats
Author: Kathryn UnruhThe Influence of the Noh Drama on William Butler Yeats, Bertolt Brecht, and Thornton Niver Wilder
Author: Martha NiemoellerPublisher:
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Category : Nō (Japanese drama and theater)
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Yeats and Noh
Author: Jean-Paul G. POTETPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326459856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Under the influence of the lyrical drama of Medieval Japan called "Noh (N'gaku)," William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) wrote ten short plays to be performed for small elite audiences. These plays constitute his "noble theatre." They fall into two generations. Six plays belong to the first generation: At the Hawk's Well (1917), The only Jealousy of Emer (1919), The Dreaming of the Bones (1919), Calvary (1920), The Cat and the Moon (1926), a farce, and Resurrection (1931). The second generation comprises four plays: A Full Moon in March (1935), The King of the Great Clock Tower (1935), Purgatory (1939), and The Death of Cuchulain (1939).
An Analysis of the Influence of the Classical Japanese Noh Theatre on the Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: Roberta Joyce HartPublisher:
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Category : Nō
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Influence of the Japanese Nōh Drama on the Dramatic Development of William Butler Yeats
Author: Jeanne WongYeats and the Noh, with Two Plays for Dancers by Yeats and Two Noh Plays
Author: Akhtar QamberPublisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Yeats and the Noh
Author: Masaru SekinePublisher: Irish Literary Studies
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
W.B. Yeats wrote the plays in Four Plays for Dancers (1921) when he was strongly influenced by Japanese Noh theatre, and was searching for some breakthrough in his efforts to promote poetic drama. Since then, various books have been published on this topic but, with the notable exception of Richard Taylor, no scholar has been able to cope with both Yeats and Noh. Yeats and the Noh started in a small seminar room in University College Dublin, when both authors took part in productions of The Dreaming of the Bones and Nishikigi with their students. Masaru Sekine directed both plays and Christopher Murray performed in them: they were therefore equipped with live experience as well as their personal expertise in Irish literature and Noh drama. Professor Augustine Martin introduces the volume, and apart from the main section of the book, Colleen Hanrahan, one of the students who took part in both UCD productions, writes about acting in Yeats's play; Peter Davidson writes about Yeats, Pound, Rummel and Dulac; and Katharine Worth provides an essay on Yeats, Beckett and Noh. There are 16 pages of illustrations. This volume is unique in providing detailed analysis of contrasts in theatrical aims, as well as examining why man seeks to explore tragic drama as a means of extending the limits of reality.
The Influence on Yeats of the Japanese Noh Plays
Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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This thesis concentrates on analytical comparisons of the form employed by Yeats in At the Hawks Well and The Dreaming of the Bones with the Noh conventions, since it is the form rather than the themes of the Noh that Yeats learned from this traditional drama of Japan. I have very briefly written in Chapters I and II about these characteristic features of the Noh which constitute the central points of my comparisons in Chapter III.
The Dance Plays of W.B. Yeats and the Noh Drama of Japan
Author: Jane Danielson MiddlebrooksPublisher:
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Category : Nō
Languages : en
Pages : 198
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The Plays of W. B. Yeats
Author: S. EllisPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349272248
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
This book investigates Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with the biblical dancer Salome and in his preoccupation with things Japanese, particularly 'Noh' Theatre with its central dance. The impact of Diaghliev's Ballets Russes also played its part in influencing Yeats's drama, and his interest in the 'dance-as-meaning' debate places him firmly not only in his time but also in our own.